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Towards a Critical Applied Linguistics for the 1990s.

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Pennycook, Alastair – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1990

An argument is made for a pedagologically and politically engaged critical applied linguistics that is responsive to its social, cultural, and political context and that uses a notion of transformative critique as its main mode of inquiry. (37 references) (Author/LB)

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cultural Context, Linguistic Theory, Political Influences

From Input to Intake: Towards a Brain-Based Perspective of Selective Attention.

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Sato, Edynn; Jacobs, Bob – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1992

Addresses, from a neurobiological perspective, the input-intake distinction commonly made in applied linguistics and the role of selective attention in transforming input to intake. The study places primary emphasis upon a neural structure (the nucleus reticularis thalami) that appears to be essential for selective attention. (79 references)…

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Attention, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes